Board Notes - September 2018

Happy Sunday!

As a big proponent in change to make things better, we've made some changes to SimRealist as a whole. In fact, there are some additional plans  being made as I write this to get us better organized, connected to you and increase the benefits to you get as a Patron. 

There will be some upcoming polls in regards to the quality of SimRealist to make sure we are attaining or reaching the goals/vision you, as a Patron, were hoping we would achieve. In addition, some other items will be sent out to you to better assess whether certain changes are welcome. 

Later this year, I hope to do a full summary/evaluation of SimRealist to get a sense of where we are and how far we've come. In addition, it will also include goals we will set for SimRealist in the coming year to put more accountability on us to do and be better for you, our Patrons. 

Now on to the highlight of today's post. Here is this month's summary of SimRealist's inner workings. 

• Operational Notes: I would like to formally announce the addition of MamaAster as our Mod Tech Support on Discord. She will be helping the community with her LE expertise and testing our mods during Patch Updates so we can announce compatibility ASAP without you having to wait for me to get home from work to test it out. You may've seen her assist on Deaderpool's MCCC server and she will now help both of us out. She has shown herself to be a great asset to the team during her trial period and so happy-grateful she decided to stay on with us! Next month, another potential staff member will be officially added and she has done a great job so far as well! In fact, you may see her pop up ever so often before then ;-)
• Mod Fund: The SNB numbers are not in as of yet, so progress on this Mod will not be updated until October's Board Notes. But the support for this Mod has been phenomenal :-) All proceeds for this will go toward the next update, which we will announce soon! In addition, I mentioned we were going to pursue sponsorship and that is still on the table. We are just wanting to update our website and possibly our branding to make the idea more appealing to potential partners.
• Private Practice 0.6: We've updated our version numbers to better categorize feature updates in relation to just adding in translated strings. This means I will be counting based off of feature versions. So the new version, 0.6.5, that was released to the public 9/21/18, is now at 1,976.  Prior to that, the version 0.6 had a combined total of 26,991 downloads! These numbers will most definitely increase as the amount of time between Patreon releases to Public releases will expand after SNB (more on this later). 
• Organic Beauty: This has been pushed to next year due to the poll results from this post. We will be focusing on Private Practice and SNB updates for the rest of the year. (This mod pack will start with the ability to have growing hair and the maintenance of said hair. I would like to expand upon that later with other aspects of human biology that changes over time but what makes us unique and beautiful in our own way) 
• SNB 2.0.0: is now AVAILABLE to all tiered Patrons!!! We hope you are liking the addition ;-) More to come on our To Do list for the rest of this Quarter. 
• R|E: This is being pushed back to next year with Organic Beauty. (Previously I was thinking more of a simple UI for Landlord type setup but I think I would like to start with creating a Real Estate market type situation where your Sim's house 'appraised' value fluctuates according to certain parameters. I think this approach would better match the SNB feature schedule that was voted upon, see SNB's 1st poll summary post on our blog) 
• Questions: Let me know if you have any questions/concerns regarding these announcements in the comments below or in the Discord #patron-forum. 

Much Love,

Nichole